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Residents are now starting to return to work, tracked by a smartphone app that shows if they are free of symptoms.

Shops and other businesses have also reopened.

The outbreak began in December and has resulted in tens of millions of people being prevented from leaving their homes.Residents wearing masks visit a shopping street in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province (Olivia Zhang/AP)

The UK, France, Spain and Italy are among a number of European countries to bring in restrictive measures to try to stem the infection rate.

The number of global cases of the disease is closing in on one million, with 45,497 people dead.

China on Tuesday reported just one new death from the coronavirus and dozens of new cases, claiming that all new cases came from overseas.